The world's most famous cities made out of cardboard

ROME wasn’t built in a day, yet it seems London, Paris and Berlin can easily be built in two.

Renowned British artist Chris Gilmour has recreated some of the world's most famous cityscapes – using only glue and corrugated cardboard storage boxes.

The stunning artwork replicates every detail of the famous city scenes, with Chris having re-created iconic areas of each city along with historical landmarks such as Big Ben, Bradenburg Gate and even the Eiffel Tower.

The artwork, titled 'You can build anything when you put your mind to it’, saw Chris create a 40 foot wide replica of London in just two days.

With the River Thames at the centre of the London artwork, flatpacked boxes then meander around an eight-foot high replica of Big Ben flowing out beyond a intricately built and fully working Tower Bridge.

Additional replicas of a rotating London Eye, St Paul’s Catherdral and the Shard made completely of storage boxes, all sit on the Embankment of the ‘cityscape’ itself.

However, it was Gherkin that proved the trickiest of buildings to manipulate for Chris – given its circular and perpendicular shape.

The view of the City from Hungerford Bridge even features a moving cardboard Tourer bus passing over London Bridge in the foreground in an incredible additional detail.

Talking about the project Chris explains: “Creating the iconic landmarks from each city was a real challenge.

“This is the largest project of its kind that I’ve undertaken. Thankfully the boxes were really easy to work with and build.

“The biggest challenge was placing the iconic sculptures in the correct place in each city to successfully convey the depth and size of the entire build.

"Finishing the project was a real achievement in itself and shows that you can build anything when you put your mind to it.”

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Chris Gilmour was commissioned by Fellowes to build the sculptures to coincide with the re-branding of its storage and organisation range from R-kive to the iconic global Bankers Box® brand, to see more click here